Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon t…

- Harlan F. Stone

The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted a…

- Harlan F. Stone

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

- Harlan F. Stone

There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is n…

- Harlan F. Stone

Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.

- Harlan F. Stone

History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in th…

- Harlan F. Stone

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

- Harlan F. Stone

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may …

- Harlan F. Stone

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

- Harlan F. Stone